# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-forstemann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:12:56.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-forstemann"
name: "Ernst Förstemann"
slug: "ernst-forstemann"
description: "Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann was a German historian, mathematician, doctor of linguistics, librarian, and director of the Saxon State Library in Dresden. He is known as a founder of onomastics and folk etymology studies in Germany, and also for his seminal contributions made in the early years of Mayanist research, towards the decipherment and understanding of calendrical elements in the pre-Columbian Maya script. He was the first European to understand and interpret the Maya number system, their use of the “zero,” and their calendar system."
tagline: "German historian, archivist and librarian (1822-1906)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scholtz-F%C3%B6rstemann.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1822-09-18"
deathDate: "1906-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.03623188405797
  historical:           13.07663866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ернст Фьорстеман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إرنست فورستمان"
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    title: "ارنست فورستمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ernst Förstemann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_F%C3%B6rstemann"
    title: "Ernst Förstemann"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_F%C3%B6rstemann"
    title: "Ernst Förstemann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_F%C3%B6rstemann"
    title: "Ernst Förstemann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_F%C3%B6rstemann"
    title: "Ernst Förstemann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_F%C3%B6rstemann"
    title: "Ernst Förstemann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_F%C3%B6rstemann"
    title: "Ernst Förstemann"
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    title: "Ernst Förstemann"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump